Chapter 12 Book 1 End
Umbra guided the ship into the cave, the serpents were scattering around like a chicken missing its head. She watched them screech and stumble around each other seeming like they hadn't a clue on what to do. This made her confused and frightened, she pressed a few buttons on the console causing a hologram to whiz into view. She pressed a few other buttons and a triangle with a symbol popped up, she huffed then she backed the ship out and did as she done before. Letting the thrusters do their work and incinerate what was scrambling around in the mouth of the cave, after a few seconds she let off spun the ship back around again and saw that nothing was left alive. Feeling slightly better she landed the ship, and hopped out. Both casters that she held on her shoulders scanned the area with her head, she tried picking up anything of Ian's, but couldn't find a single trace. She had no choice, she had to enter the cave and go down to the hatching chambers.
She flicked through visor settings to get readings of anything that's come through here. Not one was human, she took the sword from her back and readied it for anything that may be coming her way. There was once again nothing coming up, no signals nothing, she continued down the corridor for a while. Coming to a few intersections, but she seemed to know where she was heading. It only took minutes for her to find the hatching room, the walls were long and the room ran deep and tall. She looked at each corpse that was glued to the wall, all of them human, none were Ian. In the center of the room was the Hish his body was mangled and chest was blown out, she walked up to it and tilted her head looking at the corpse, running her hand against the stiff cold arm she didn't feel one bit upset of its condition. She looked away and around the chamber, all the eggs where hatched, but there were no juveniles roaming around, not even adults were about.
From the left side of the chamber she heard a screech come from deeper within the cave. Not liking her options she ventured deeper, the screeching was becoming louder, and before she knew it she was looking at the queens' chambers. Only the queen was dead, the head missing from its neck and laid on the ground next to it. Umbra was confused but soon figured it out the abomination killed the queen and took its place, only there was something else happening down near the body. A new queen was emerging from a shell and hundreds of other serpents were intertwined with each other and the newly anointed queen. Umbra didn't waste any time in dispatching all of them at once, she removed a grenade looking thing quietly clicked it a few times to the right, walked backwards a few feet and chucked the thing into the area. It blinked a bright blue color as it fell and landed in a mess of bodies causing them to slowly stop and see what landed in their joining.
Umbra was half way out of the hatching chamber before the bomb detonated filling the queens' chamber with bright blue plasma and flames that poured into the hatching chambers. Hot air wicked Umbra's back as she ran for the exit. Making it out of there with ease she still couldn't find any trace of Ian or the abomination. She thought that maybe the abomination would try and make a hive out of the bunker, maybe that's where Ian is. Hopefully he's still alive, she ran to the ship sat in the seat turning it on and blasted out of the cave in seconds. Ian didn't really like wondering out at night, but for some reason he felt that he should at least try and figure out a way to get to some place safe. He didn't want to be around the corpse and he certainly couldn't move it. He stopped at the river bed, and looked at his hands, he sighed then began quickly removing his clothes. He took a quick bath and cleaned himself physically, of what he had done then got dressed and went on his way towards the lake. "I hope you have a good life Umbra, I really do." He smiled up to the sky not knowing how long it would take for her to come back, or if she would even come back at all. As much as he wanted her too he knew that she most likely thought he was dead, and wouldn't want to come back to see his corpse busted up from one of those creatures. As he stood there pondering if Umbra would ever come for him he heard a hum of something coming from his right. He scrambled into the water and submerged himself looking up at the ship as it passed by. He watched it until the ass end of the ship passed tracking it with his eye he could tell it was heading towards the bunker.
He quickly swam back to the shore and started running towards the bunker, the ship pushed its way through the trees and landed on the ground crushing the chitin plates. The side door opened and Umbra stepped out, she looked both ways trying to get a read of anything and she did. She saw a thin line of pheromones coming from the bunker and out into the forest. It confused her because it was both human and abomination, but one of them was reading a sexual pheromone it was the abominations. She looked back to the bunker its door closed, then something beeped in her visor and new signal was coming in and it was moving towards her quickly. She stood at the ready, casters winding up ready to fire at what could break through the forest. She dropped her gauntlet blade just in case she missed with the casters. The signal was getting closer, then it came out of the forest, Ian ran out and saw something standing there, he couldn't tell who it was and he freaked out inside, but he used up most of the energy he had running.
Not knowing who it was that was standing there he couldn't chance it, he stood there looking at the thing standing there. It began to walk towards him, fuck it he thought and started walking towards the stranger. Umbra had forgotten to change her visor over to infrared, she was too filled with anger to care, and she could see just enough of what she wanted to see. The casters marked their target, Ian could see the red dots light up on its mask. "W-wait!" he yelled they were about fifty meters away from each other. Umbra paused, her heart lit up and tears welled in her eyes, she heard a sound she would never forget, Ian's soft deep voice filled her ears and heart. Ian not knowing what happened put his hands up showing he surrendered, not knowing who this was he didn't want to take the chance. Then it started running at him Ian freaked and screamed as he turned around running away. Umbra shocked at his reaction didn't realize he couldn't recognize her, she quickly threw off her mask "Ian! Mate! It is me!" she yelled out to him.
Ian stopped quickly, and turned around slowly to see Umbra in a new set of armor that covered most of her body, she ran up to him and he opened his arms to her, she picked him up squeezing him tightly. "To tight, to tight" he wheezed to her. She let him go and placed her hands on the sides of his face her thumbs rubbing under his eyes. "My mate, I came back for you." She cried to him, Ian looked up to her and placed his hands on the sides of her face pulling her down, he kissed her on the forehead then placed his against her and looked her in the eye, "I didn't think you'd come back for me, you have no idea how happy I am to see you." He smiled, she pulled away from him "where is abomination, she make me leave mate. Now she dies" she said trying to guard Ian, he chuckled and placed his hand on her wrist lowering it.
"She's dead Umbra, I killed her.." he paused "but there's something I need to tell you. You're probably not going to like it either." Umbra in utter shock looked down to Ian mandibles and mouth dropped open. "Mate killed abomination?" she gawked at him. Ian took a deep sigh looked side to side then up to her. "Let me show you okay?" he said taking her hand and walking her into the bunker. He slid the door open and they stepped through, Ian's heart was racing out of fear. Umbra let out a gasp as she saw its corpse lay there two holes in its chest one at the neck separating the head from the shoulders. "Mate killed it." Was all she could seem to say. Ian tugged at her hand "focus sweet heart, I have to tell you how I killed it, and you're most likely not going to like it." Umbra looked over the corpse and paused at groin area. "Did you give it seed mate?" She asked seriously, "Umbra it was." "Did you give it seed!" she roared at him cutting him off mid-sentence.
Umbra walked up to Ian and grabbed both arms shaking him "did you give it seed mate?!" Ian shook his head "no I didn't give it my seed, I killed it before that came even close, I promise. It was the only way I could get her to not pay attention to my movements Umbra! If there was another way you know damn well I would have done it!" he pleaded, Umbra looked at him then to the dead creature, and back to him. She reached down and gripped his crotch tightly "only mate give me seed, never do again" she growled at him pointing to the body. Ian nodded biting his lower lip, he couldn't tell if she was upset that he had sex with it or if she was happy that he killed it. "Mate still killed abomination, must take head for trophy mate." She said looking at him a glint of pride was in her eyes, Ian was very confused but didn't try and talk about it, and he didn't want to make things possibly worse.
Umbra grabbed the head and took it back to the ship, as they stepped outside there was five different Yautja standing next to the Umbra's ship. Umbra huffed and spoke something in her language, "what do you want father, I told you I never wanted to see you again." Ian looked up at her then over to the other Yautja standing there then the large older kingly looking one spoke to her "yes you did, but I wanted to see this Ooman for myself, I wanted to see if he indeed killed that beast. I take it he did?" he asked her she looked down to him clicked her mandibles together happily and tossed the giant head to him, it crashed into the ground and rolled to his feet. "Father" she whispered to him quickly. Her father looked at the head placing his foot on the side of it moving it around, he could see that there was scorch marks at the neck. He looked over to Umbra's casters, but couldn't see that they've been shot. "Impressive for prey" he said, Umbra let out a soft growl as her father walked up to Ian.
Umbra stepped in front of Ian not know what her father would do, but Ian pushed her to the side and started walking to her father, they stopped about three feet away from each other. It was silent and tense for Umbra, her father could remove his head in a split second, and there was nothing she could do against his guard. Her heart sunk as she saw his arm raise, Ian looking him in the eye could see that he too was missing his left eye. Ian smirked and saw his hand coming up, to which Ian gripped it tightly. The two shook hands and nodded at each other. Umbra terrified that her mate was just killed didn't know how to react to that sight. "Take care of daughter Ooman" was all he said as he turned around and walked to his guard and then disappeared into nothing. Ian let out a sigh of relief, Umbra did the same and walked up to him taking his hand.
"Guess I have your dads blessing." Ian chuckled, Umbra didn't know what he meant but she nodded anyways. They grabbed the head and placed it in the ship, Ian could finally see Umbra's armor under full light "nice fish net you got there sweet heart." He said coming up behind her slapping her ass, she flinched and turned around looking at him clicking her mandibles together quickly. "Glad mate likes armor, its old" she replied. Ian laughed and Umbra went to the pilot seat, turned on the ship and it lifted off the surface. Ian walked over to the door and opened it putting out a fist and extending his middle finger to the ground as it got smaller and smaller. Soon they were in space, finally both off that planet, both together without issue, and both holding hands standing in the cockpit, their other arms extended outwards to the planet and both middle fingers extended out to it. "Let's find a new home love" Ian said as he sat in the seat taking the stick in hand. "Agreed" Umbra replied coming behind him holding his shoulders. The ship jetted into warp leaving only four thin blue lines in its path.
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